{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.baldwin.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-baldwin-slams-trump-administrations-efforts-to-dismantle-education-department-and-shortchange-american-families", "Senator Baldwin Slams Trump Administration\u2019s Efforts to Dismantle Education Department & Shortchange American Families", "2025-11-18", "2025", "2025-11", "Democrat", "Senate", "WI", "Tammy Baldwin", "B001230", "www.baldwin.senate.gov", "baldwin", "https://www.baldwin.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Ranking Member on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee that oversees the Department of Education, condemned the Trump Administration\u2019s misguided actions to illegally dismantle the Department, threatening to cut off or disrupt vital support for students, teachers, and families.\n\n\u201cEvery American child \u2013 no matter who they are or where they live \u2013 deserves access to a high-quality education. That\u2019s the promise and opportunity we give to all Americans. Today\u2019s announcement takes us a step further away from achieving that. After cutting funding for Wisconsin schools and trying to cut significantly more, Donald Trump is now trying to illegally eliminate the Department of Education in order to score a political point and it is students and families that will pay the price,\u201d said Senator Baldwin. \u201cThis isn\u2019t complicated: local communities and parents just want their schools to be funded well and children safe in the classroom. Illegally moving programs to other federal agencies does nothing to help students \u2013 it just creates confusion and will lead to more bureaucracy, not less. I\u2019ll do everything I can to stop President Trump and Education Secretary McMahon in their crusade to shortchange Wisconsin children.\u201d\n\nToday, President Donald Trump and Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced that the Trump Administration will move programs from the Department of Education into agencies without the proper expertise to administer them. This includes moving the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, which oversees critical K-12 formula and competitive grant programs, and the Office of Postsecondary Education, which oversees programs to help students access and complete college, to the Labor Department. The Indian Education program will be moved to the Department of Interior, a childcare access program will be moved to the Department of Health and Human Services, and foreign language education programs to the State Department. In a similar effort to skirt the law earlier this year, the Trump Administration moved career, technical, and adult education grant programs out of the Education Department and into the Department of Labor.\n\nSenator Baldwin has been an outspoken critic of President Trump\u2019s stated goal of dismantling the Department of Education and continued efforts to withhold funding from American students and schools, including blocking $7 billion in Congressionally approved funding ahead of the 2025-2026 school year. In June, Senator Baldwin pressed Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon on the Trump administration\u2019s decision to cut off funding for grants for school based mental health, including a Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction program that provides mental healthcare for students.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:52:45Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.baldwin.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-baldwin-slams-trump-administrations-efforts-to-dismantle-education-department-and-shortchange-american-families"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 5.314065143465996, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}